Of course, becoming a master requires not only a mature understanding and application of film language, but also a mature and genius understanding of life and the world. Sturges's movies are not only crazy about performances, pictures and sound, but their craziness also comes from his contempt for the rules and disciplines of this world. Sturges’ comedy is sometimes close to farce, messy scenes and overwhelming plots are like a carnival, and carnival is not the most effective way for us humans to get rid of the heavy shackles of life, liberate the soul, and embrace the beauty of life since ancient times?
In 1944, the United States was in a state of stalemate during World War II. The spiritual trauma caused by the Pearl Harbor incident had not yet been healed. The Americans had to tighten their belts, bear the lack of material tension, and watched their boys continue to continue. Was sent to the battlefield across the ocean. It can be said that such a crazy and daring comedy was born under the background of such an unfavorable era.
The word miracle, in fact, has a religious connotation. It refers to the Virgin who conceived the son Jesus as a virgin. In the film, Trudy gave birth at Christmas, and the identity of Noval’s top bag father is reminiscent of the Bible. In this classic plot. And this miracle is also a miracle of reproductive worship. The exaggerated fertility plots in the film and the exaggerated reactions of the participating countries (and also reports in the newspapers of the Republic of China, indicating that the Chinese battlefield is indeed important for World War II) reflect the cruelty of this war. Thousands of men died in the war, and every country that participated in the war lost their sons, so Trudy did not give birth to she or he, but six babies, all boys! The fathers of babies are all American soldiers fighting on the front lines, and these babies are God's chosen people and the hope of the American nation. Only in this way can the audience accept the immoral behaviors of the heroes and heroines, and their hearts that are overwhelmed by the war can also be comforted and released.
I like watching such comedies, crazy enough and powerful enough. At the same time, the miracle of Morgan River reminds me of Bu Jiaqiu's Decameron, which is a fertility carnival under the heavy social reality. Of course, because of the censorship system, the film is actually a lot of convergence, but the spirit does have similarities. To his marriage system, legal system, financial system and wars, to all his man-made shackles and oppression of people, Sturges destroyed all these troubles with the birth of six children. Long live, the Virgin Mary in the war years. !
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